Swedish Monkey

Swedish Monkey
First Appearance	John Gutter
First Demo Appearance	December 2019 Patreon build

Swedish Monkey is an enemy in Pizza Tower.

Description

Swedish Monkey is a brown-furred peach-skinned monkey with a brown moustache, a light blue belt with a yellow buckle, and a small light blue Viking helmet with horns. His hands and feet are rather large, and he is often seen holding a yellow peeled banana.

Behaviour

Swedish Monkey walks around, occasionally throwing Banana Peels. Defeating a Swedish Monkey will also cause banana peels thrown by it to disappear (Upon exiting and returning to the room it was in).

Appears in

• John Gutter
• The Pig City (background cameo)
• Oh Shit!
• Peppibot Factory (background cameo)
• The Crumbling Tower of Pizza

Trivia

• The concept of Swedish Monkey was inspired by a kind of Swedish pizza with bananas as a topping.
  • Additionally, Swedish Monkey's appearance was based on the popular streamer and musician Vargskelethor also known as Vinesauce Joel, who is both a native Swedish and whose online persona is portrayed wearing a viking helmet with the Swedish flag colors and with facial hair.
    • This could be unconfirmed as Vargskelethor thought it couldn't be a easter egg and was just a coincidence.
• The Swedish Monkey's defeat sprite is a reference to Donkey Kong's hurt animation from the Donkey Kong Country series of games.
• Swedish Monkey's Heat Meter attack was that he would throw evil bananas, that would hurt the player instead of making them slip.
• Originally, the banana made the player slide uncontrollably, similar to the unused Ice Blocks.
• Swedish Monkey's Heat Meter Palette may be a reference to Denmark. Most likely a joke for the elite variant to be Danish instead of Swedish. Although, the stripe down the middle on it's helmet is the same, to not conflict with the color of the banana.

Gallery

Regular animations

Swedish Monkey's walking animation.

Swedish Monkey eating his banana, throwing the peel, and taking out a new one from under his helmet.

Swedish Monkey's scared animation.

Swedish Monkey's stun animation.

Swedish Monkey's defeat sprite.

Swedish Monkey's banana.

Scrapped animations

Swedish Monkey's idle sprite.

Swedish Monkey's Heat Meter banana.

Swedish Monkey's Heat Meter Palette.

In-game Miscellaneous

A Swedish Monkey eating bananas with the newly ressurected Pillar John while Gerome cleans up after them. Appears in the game's ending if all the Tower Secret Treasures are collected.

A Swedish Monkey floating in the background of Oh Shit!

An old version of the same background.

Swedish Monkey in Pig City

A sign of a Swedish Monkey In Peppibot Factory.